25 years ago, Peter Mattis announced a new image editor called GIMP in the newsgroup .
GIMP was just a simple image editor when it was first born. Until now, GIMP has almost all the functions required for image processing. It is known as Photoshop under Linux and can be said to be recognized as the leading open source alternative to Photoshop.
For those questionable nicknames-"Photoshop for Linux", "free Photoshop", "that ugly piece of software'", GIMP also laughed at itself, expressing its full agreement and only agreement The last statement.
GTK, born out of GIMP, has become the basis of many Linux desktop environment projects (such as GNOME and Xfce). GTK (GIMP Toolkit) is a set of graphics toolkits across multiple platforms. It was originally written for GIMP, and GTK later It has developed into a mainstream development tool for developing graphical interface applications under Linux, and has evolved into a self-contained project that is used by thousands of developers.
GIMP received more help from enthusiastic contributors than expected, and also attracted developers from Hollywood to help write the prototype of the new image processing engine GEGL, which is now in use by many software projects.
However, GIMP also mentioned that there are too few active developers in the project, and there are too many things to do, so the progress cannot be completed in a reasonable time, which leads many people to think that the project is dead even if the developers are all immersed in it Hard work. In response to this situation, GIMP has introduced some time planning arrangements, which seem to be quite effective.
Maybe it is really busy. GIMP said on its 25th anniversary that there is no big news to announce, and developers are still busy working. They are preparing for the 3.0 major version. In the process, there is a lot of work to modernize the program. GIMP 2.99.2 was released earlier this month. The development team stated that it is now much busier than ever, but they still cannot guarantee the exact release time of 3.0.
In any case, we should thank GIMP and their team!
Finally, let me test everyone, what open source projects appeared in the above picture for GIMP's birthday celebration?